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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

Krishna Das

We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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Different Live Ourselves See World
Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself

Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

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